Group News
Welcome to SME's Los Angeles County Chapter 153. Proudly Serving All Los Angeles and 4 Counties North of L A, We Are a Platinum Chapter! Future home of the California Science Center - Samuel Oschin Air and Space Pavilion, under construction and scheduled to open in June 2025!
VISION
Developing America’s future workforce of manufacturing and engineering technologists by engaging them in critical reasoning and problem-solving skills through partnering industry with education.
MISSION
The establishment of the "Educational and Professional Succession" senior SME chapter is to shepherd the associated student chapters and affiliates, providing a conduit of connectivity ensuring the success of the participants. The SME student chapters collaborate and support each other with mentorship from the professional/senior chapter as the students ascend through education and into the workplace. This two-way collaboration fuels the educational and professional succession as we develop our manufacturing and engineering workforce.
Purpose
Advance manufacturing and attract future generations of chapter and society members
Prime School Chapter Sponsor
Hawthorne High School. Students in the SME PRIME network receive hands-on training on modern equipment, and learn about technology and processes through tailored curriculum that is informed by local manufacturing companies in their communities.
Chapter Membership Benefits
- Membership in Chapter 153 facilitates a career pathway to professional success. We “serve” our country by collaborating with industry to create a workforce. We create career success stories to professional success. Karen makes sense out of building the education to profession succession. Ask her about our pre-apprentice engineering and manufacturing program called Aero-flex. Contact Karen @ klatuner@gmail.com
- Scholarships available through SME Education Foundation https://www.smeef.org/
- Engage in student competitions: design, fabricate, build and compete
- Contact Skills USA for details
- Student chapters, both 2-year community and four-year institutions
- Boeing Member Center - Boeing employees only. SME offers unique opportunities for members of companies that become Corporate Members.
- Build your technical/professional networks & communities
- Please visit and join our Chapter Linkedin Website @ www.linkedin.com/groups/13876263/
- Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP So Cal)
- Led by the Price School – USC Center for Economic Development
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Los Angeles – Las Vegas Section
- DaVinci Schools – Hawthorne and El Segundo
- Lennox Academy Mathematics, Science and Technology Academy
- South Bay Aerospace Alliance
- Argyros College of Business and Economics, Chapman, University. The Shah Family Endowed Chair in Innovativeness, Professor Pradip K. Shukla, Ph.D., CPIM.
- American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin ((ASEI)
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Refer to the "files" section for past meeting minutes and to access "Leadership" topic files.
Historical Chapter 153 "News Flashes" file folder added. Thank you Mr. Timko, previous Chapter Officer for these scans from the 1980s!
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LinkedIn Chapter 153 Page
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Contact Information
Category:
Chapters
Description:
Chair / Webmaster
Ron Gill - HSME, CMfgE
Please contact me with any questions about Chapter 153
Email
Chair-Elect
Donald McKinzie
At Large
Open position
Treasurer
Karen Latuner
Secretary/Member Recruitment
Glen Chapple
Student Chapters
California Polytechnic State University S012
Trian Georgeou
602.323.6191 (C)
Email
California State University, Northridge S327
Bingbing Li, PhD
818.677.6229
Email
Note: The use or release of an SME member's contact information, for commercial purposes, is contrary
Ron Gill - HSME, CMfgE
Please contact me with any questions about Chapter 153
Chair-Elect
Donald McKinzie
At Large
Open position
Treasurer
Karen Latuner
Secretary/Member Recruitment
Glen Chapple
Student Chapters
California Polytechnic State University S012
Trian Georgeou
602.323.6191 (C)
California State University, Northridge S327
Bingbing Li, PhD
818.677.6229
Note: The use or release of an SME member's contact information, for commercial purposes, is contrary
Access:
Public
Location:
Torrance, CA 90506, United States
Members:
206